I am seeking help as I attempt to understand the WTS/JW current understanding of the eschatological sequence of events. Please show me where my understanding is correct and where it is wrong:
WTS/JW BACKGROUND
· Jehovah God’s Kingdom Government was set up in 1914, which included the resurrection to spirit life by most of its 144,001 kingdom-priest rulers.
· The group of 144,000 redeemed from earth receive eternal life since they are Born Again, Christ’s brothers, the Elect, Christians. Jesus Christ gave his life for them alone, and the majority of the Scripture’s promises apply solely to them.
· Each person who is to make up the balance of this group is resurrected to spirit life in heaven when they die.
· Everlasting Life upon earth for the remainder of humanity depends on acceptance of the Kingdom Government’s rule that is taught by its sole representative on earth, the Governing Body of Jehovah’s Witnesses (GB).
· The President of the WTS provided the initial formulation of this Kingdom Government message in 1935. (It undergoes refinements, such as the creation of a Governing Body.)
· There is thus a vast number of people who lived before 1935 who never had the opportunity to know the WTS’s teachings on the Kingdom. These are “unrighteous”.
· The resurrected spirit-beings who lived before 1935 are not “unrighteous”, even though they never had the opportunity to hear the WTS’s Kingdom Message. They are “unrighteous” but they are not “evil”.
· A number of people have heard their message but have rejected it. These are included with those who are deemed to be “evil”.
· A number of faithful believers in the Kingdom message have gone to their graves, which are known as “memorial tombs”. These are “righteous”.
WTS/JW SEQUENCE OF LAST-DAY EVENTS
· God’s Kingdom Government towards earth was set up in October 1914, following the start of WW1.
· Because Satan is no longer in heaven, he rocks the earth with greater calamities than before.
· When the number of resurrected spirit beings reaches the assigned 144,001, war takes place between heaven and earth at a place called Armageddon, which results in billions being killed. Some were “unrighteous”; some were “evil”. Faithful followers of the WTS might survive the War.
· At the conclusion of this conflict, the “righteous” are resurrected to life on earth. (Whether the resurrected “righteous” and the living survivors are known at that time as the Great Crowd or whether in prospect is not clear.) With great joy and singing in their hearts, men, women and children bury the billions of dead (including their non-believing relations), clean up the devastated cities and countries, and take over all infrastructure operations, including the supply of resources, energy, raw materials and skills needed for the massive printing program that lies before them.
· Every day for centuries, the “unrighteous” are resurrected to life at various locations on earth. These include virtually all the people who lived before 1935 and most since that time. The evil are not resurrected, nor are Eve and Adam. Those who had already rejected the WTS/JW Kingdom message are not resurrected. (For nine billion resurrections, this requires fifty thousand additional “unrighteous” being resurrected each and every day for five hundred years. That is, about eighteen million resurrections every year for five hundred years.
· Each resurrected “unrighteous” is given the opportunity to hear the Kingdom message they had missed out on. (For this to occur, every ancient language, dialect and idiom is mastered by the resurrected righteous while the resurrected unrighteous are able to accept the inventions of the modern era which are required by the righteous to get their message broadcast across the globe.)
· Those who refuse to accept the Kingdom message live on, working in the cities and on the land, because at the end of 1000 years from the Battle at Armageddon they are still alive to take up arms against the Kingdom. Jehovah God murders them.
· Those left behind to clean up this inherited mess are called the Great Crowd. They live eternally as they too have received the gift of eternal life.